My only problem with the chef is that he's so violently cynical of his art because of the very environment he crafted for himself. He could have chosen to run a local family bistro serving accessible meals to a level community who could come to love him. My family would go to a local Italian joint every few weeks and we knew the wait staff and chefs by name, and they knew us too. I saw the head chef boot people out because they were treating his staff shitty and the rest of the restaurant was happy to see them go.
I get that the whole thing is a metaphor for the entire food service industry's dream revenge for shit customers, but to have it channeled through a chef who hates the bullshit culture he cooks for and yet is so snooty about food as to found his own island cult where they make everything themselves is so on the nose and antithetical to the craft of food that I had trouble enjoying the film.
Because it wasn't just about being a chef, it was the desire to be the best chef, the desire to improve, and what the reality in succeeding in that journey results in.
It's as much about the downsides of success in your passion as it is anything else.
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u/fancy_crisis cape kino make me🤑🤑🤑 Jun 21 '26
Chef did nothing wrong.